Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-18
State 11epS.

Mayor McCuen of VergenDes has issued
call for from $40, 1000 to $50. 900 to meet
bonds soon due.
There have been 81 cases of diphtheria
and seven deaths from it in Rutland since
September 27
The spire of the new Catholic church
at Barre was blown down by a high wind
the other evening.
Rev. George H. Bailey of Richford has
accepted a call to st. Andrews Episcopal
church at st. Johnsbury.
The Producers Marble company at
Rutland has issued a circular stating that
it will be dissolved on Jan. l.
Diphtheria prevails to serious extent
at Montgomery, and the public schools
have been closed in consequence of it.
Frank E. Mudgett of Washington got
too much poor rum at Chelsea and died
from the effects of it before he reached
home.
The grand list of the town of Rutland
is S79,969.S2. The number of polls is
PHI, after dsductng $50 members of fire
companies.
r 1t can be set down as practically set
tied that the Rutland railroad is going in
to the hands of the Central Vermont
Boston Record.
Springfield, under the town system,
has II districts, % teachers and $50 pu-
pills. In the village there are nine teach
ers and 300 pupils.
Edward Conant of the Normal school
at Randolph has been elected president
of the New England Normal School
Teachers association.
A special village meeting will be held
in Rutland on Dec. I, at the desire of
creditors of the village, who hold bills to
the amount of $1,000 against it.
Eleven hundred and eghty-two men
are employed in the granite industry at
Barre. But a short time ago there were
hardly as many inhabitants there.
Family troubles caused Matthew Cain,
a Rutland laboring man, to mix paris
green with cider and drink them. He
lived two hours after taking the dose.
Hamilton Ormsbee, lately connected
with the New York Times, has assumed
the management of the Rutland Evening
Telegram temporarily. with view to
permanency.
1t is said that George L. Spear, the
Braintree lumber dealer and eX-internal
revenue collector for Vermont, is after j.
j. X. Randalls office as national bank eX-
aminer for Vermont.
Mary Vesseley died at Bennington the
other day of malignant pustule. disease
akin to anthrax in animals. Cases of it
are very rare, fortunately, as they are
almost always fatal.
At st. Johnsbury Levi Defoe, aged six
teen years, was fined SO and costs for
taking William Leech, twelve years old.
into barn and making him drink alcohol
until he was drunk and then horse-whip-
ping him to get him sober.
Timothy Gilmore fell from the rear
freight car of mixed train at White
River Junction on Monday and passen-
ger car passed over him, breaking his
right arm and cutting his head terribly.
His injuries are not fatal.
The Eagle Rod and Gun club of Fair
haven has put into its lake this week $50
carp, of which 100 were over year old,
and it expects nearly 200 more the first
of December. A quantity of wild rice
or oats will be sowed this season.
Those who were fortunate enough to
visit Burlington last week beheld bril-
liant spectacle. The forest fires on the
New York shore were raging furiously,
lighting up the country for miles around,
while on the hills from St. George to
Williston and Hinesburgh there seemed
to be almost one continuous line of fire.
Over S2S, 900 has already been expend-
ed by the town of Rutland upon the Me-
mortal hall, which has been building for
several years past. 1t is expected that
the iron roof will be shipped in a few
days, and the building covered this fall.
The building is of blue marble, the Sc
lected color, which was given by differ
ent marble companies, and the value of
the marble thus given is about $4,000.
1t is reported in Rutland that upon the
dissolution of the Producers Marble Co.
a new combination will be formed which
will take in all the Pttsford and Bran
non quarries and such other findings as
may prove available. The report is that
some of the partners in the Producers
company will be quite active in making
the new.
Elk. Gov. Proctor of Proctor has
bought the Prime quarry, located two
miles south of Brandon, and is making
extensive preparations for opening it.
A new branch railroad has been built
from the quarry to the Central Vermont
railroad and the old mill has been torn
down for the purpose of replacing it with
a new one. New derricks have been
erected and ifty men are already employ
ed there.
Milo Foster, an aged citizen of Jericho,
was found in the woods between Chitten-
den and Underhill the other day in pit
liable condition. His cries brought to his
rescue Wallace Stevens, who found him
covered with blood and one-half of his
body paralyzed. 1t was found that he
had had a shock, and in rolling around
crying for help he received severe contu-
sions of his limbs, He was in the woods
chopping at the time.
The new bridge on the Central Yer
mont railroad which replaces that one
which was destroyed at the Hartford ac-
cident last spring is the longest on the
line between Boston and the Victoria
bridge at Montreal. 1t is of the most
improved modern style, and very strong.
The severest test that can be applied, and
something that cannot occur in actual
business, the placing of three Mogul
nUines on each span. all the length thew